Why Discuss.io customers are switching

Pogo: Built on
 Verified Buyers

Pogo replaces live-moderated research with AI-moderated interviews and surveys on 3M+ purchase-verified buyers — so you get the same depth without scheduling around a moderator.

3M+ purchase-verified buyers / $470B+ in tracked transaction volume
Pogo AI Interviewer product screenshot showing an AI-moderated video interview with a purchase-verified buyer
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The structural difference: verified panel, AI-moderated scale

Live-moderated video platforms depend on a human moderator scheduling and running each session — which caps how many interviews you can realistically run and how fast you can turn them around. Pogo's AI-moderated interviews run on 3M+ purchase-verified buyers, so you can field far more interviews, faster, without sacrificing a real conversation.

3M+Purchase-verified shoppers
$470B+In tracked spend
1 in 150U.S. shopping trips

A side-by-side comparison

Discuss.io
Panel qualification
✓
Matched to real purchase and transaction data before qualifying
✕Depends on the panel sourced for each project; not purchase-verified
Scale of interviews
✓
AI-moderated — run dozens to hundreds of interviews without a live moderator's schedule
✕Human-moderated live sessions, scheduled one at a time
Speed to insight
✓
Studies typically field and report in hours to days
✕Live-moderated scheduling and session time add weeks to a study

Hear from leaders who choose Pogo

"Pogo enables us to engage verified customers and gain insights that drive smarter decisions."

Nick Swanson, VP, Business Insights & Analytics, ofi

"Pogo's breadth and depth of data is exceptional, I've yet to build an audience they couldn't find."

Jennifer Ng, GM, Advertiser Insights, The Trade Desk

"Pogo's blend of competitive basket-level spend signals, along with videos of consumers that humanize the data is a game changer (and a must have for any data-driven marketer)"

Joice Wirkus, SVP, Marketing, Pet Supplies Plus

Why teams choose Pogo over Discuss.io

01 · Verified buyers

Verified buyers, not self-reported claims

Most research panels qualify respondents by answering a screener, so anyone can claim to buy your brand to collect the incentive. On Pogo, every respondent is screened by real card, receipt, and location data before the study starts.

Pogo Audience Builder product screenshot showing verified-behavior audience segments
02 · Hard-to-fill audiences

Reach the buyers other panels can't

Low-incidence SKUs, a competitor's customers, category lapsers — that's where opt-in panels run dry. Pogo finds them by what they actually bought: brand, retailer, SKU, and frequency.

Pogo Audience Explorer product screenshot showing reachable audience segments
03 · Behavior + answer

The behavior behind every answer

Most tools give you the survey response. Pogo gives you the response and the verified purchase behind it — the receipt, the store visit, the brand switch — attached to the same person, in one study.

Pogo AI Research Agent product screenshot showing behavioral data behind survey answers
04 · Video interviews

Watch real buyers answer, in their own words

Talk to hundreds of verified buyers on video, in hours. Watch the full interviews, get instant reports, and share the highlight reels in your next deck.

Pogo AI video interview screenshot showing a verified buyer answering in their own words

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Frequently Asked Questions

How does Pogo verify its research panel?

Every Pogo respondent is matched to real purchase and transaction data before they qualify for a study — confirmed behavior, not a self-report screener.

What data does Pogo actually use to verify a purchase?

Pogo matches respondents against real-world purchase signals — including credit and debit card transaction data, digital receipts, in-store visit data, and app usage data — before they ever qualify for a study. That's what "purchase-verified" means in practice: confirmed behavior across multiple data sources, not a single self-reported screener question.

How is Pogo different from a live-moderated interview platform?

Live-moderated platforms depend on a human moderator scheduling and running each session, which limits how many interviews you can run and how fast. Pogo's interviews are AI-moderated on a purchase-verified panel, so you can scale to far more conversations without the scheduling bottleneck.

Can I run both quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews on Pogo?

Yes. Pogo supports large-sample quantitative surveys plus AI-moderated qualitative interviews, all on the same purchase-verified panel.

Can Pogo reach niche or hard-to-find audiences?

Yes. Because respondents are matched to real transaction data, Pogo can target specific buying behaviors down to sub-1% incidence rates.

How fast can I get results from a Pogo study?

Most surveys and AI-moderated interview studies field and report within hours to a few days, rather than the multi-week timelines common with live-moderated research.

See what AI-moderated, verified-buyer interviews change about your research

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